We love dressing up! We had great fun wearing our Halloween costumes to school.
Fancy Dress.
The Boy,the mole, the fox and the horse.
The first book we read together as a class was ‘The Boy, the mole, the fox and the horse’ by Charlie Mackesy.
It’s really a picture book with lots of advice on life. The illustrations are simple but really beautiful.
When we met a page that we liked we discussed the picture and what the written piece means.
When we were finished we got to choose our favourite quotes and we drew our own pictures to go with them.
We would highly recommend this book to people of all ages. It tells us the story of four unlikely friends, all with different personalities, strengths and weaknesses.
We all loved the mole because he looks cute and he says funny stuff all the time!!!!
World Book Day in Junior Infants!
Junior Infants had lots of fun dressing up as their favourite characters from books and stories. Have a look at their fantastic costumes.
Pancake Tuesday!
We enjoyed some delicious pancakes and we talked about Lent. Lent is a time when we try in a very special way to share with others. We also recalled the poem ‘A Cupful of Kindness’.
‘A Cupful of Kindness’
A cupful of kindness,
And plenty of care
Some hugs and some kisses,
They’re so nice to share!
Nice words and good manners,
Now that’s how it’s done,
And just while we’re at it,
Let’s throw in some fun!
Now mix it and stir it,
And taste it and see.
Yummy! I like it!
It tastes good to me!
It’s easy to share love,
We just need to try.
Just take it, and give it,
Come on, don’t be shy!
Penpals
Mr. O’ Meara has a friend who teaches in Lenox Elementary School in New York. He arranged for us to be penpals with their class.
We wrote our first letters to them in September and we posted them on October 5th. ( It took over a week for them to receive them!!)
Their teacher didn’t tell them about us until they received our letters so they were very excited!!
We have agreed to read the same class novels so we can discuss them in our letters. We have read ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’, ‘Bud Not Buddy’ and ‘ The One and Only Ivan’ so far!
We love writing to our pen-pals, it’s so much fun! First we write our 1st draft, Mr O’ Meara corrects it, we edit it and write our 2nd draft. Once we are happy with our letter we write the final draft on fancy paper and decorate our envelopes. We send all the letters together in a large envelope.
We have learnt a lot about the cultural differences between the children in Lenox Elementary and Scoil Mhuire agus Iosaf.
One of the coolest things that happened is that we explained to them what the “Late Late Toy Show” is and their teacher found it online and they got to watch it at school!!!!
We got to explore their school and town on google maps and they looked at Collooney, Markree Castle, Strandhill and more.
We are planning a zoom call with them soon but they are 5 hours behind us so when we talk, we will be getting ready to go home and they will just be starting their school day!!!
World Book Day 2022!
Our Class Library
We asked our class to bring in as many books as possible from home. (We wanted to make a class library). Within a couple of days we had over 300 books!!! We got so many that we had to get another set of shelves!
We have 2 librarians in our class who arranged our books by alphabetical order and grouped by author.
We keep a reading log in which we write book reviews. Our favourite authors include: Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, David Walliams, J.K. Rowling and many more!
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who donated!!!
Well Done Harry!
Massive congratulations to Harry Rush who won 1st place in the Under 12 – 1 metre Equijump Spring tour 2021 . He was presented with this award at the weekend at the Pony Awards night.
World Book Day 2022
World Book Day 2022
